National accounts estimates, released on 30 June 2004, were compiled using more comprehensive data and greater transactional detail than had been available before. This additional information brought about improvements in the quality of the government healthcare output estimates.
This article gives information on the new data sources and the computation methods used. It also explains in detail what caused these new estimates to differ from the figures published previously.
Published in web format: 13 December 2004 at 9:30 am